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Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:

Bored Ape Yacht Club is a huge mainstream hit, but is Wall Street ready for NFTs?

The Inside Story of How India’s Crypto Exchanges Were ‘Inspected’ by Tax Agencies

Two agencies, five months, five crypto exchanges, 100-plus officers, more than Rs 700 million in tax recovery, and yet the scale of the misdemeanor, excused by “ambiguity,” remains unknown.

”In 10 Years Half Of All Financial Transactions Will Touch Ethereum” - Iconic Crypto Fund Responds To JPMorgan's Ethereum Hit Piece

Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:

Omicron Sours Nationwide Breakdown of Services

Ambulances in Kansas speed toward hospitals then suddenly change direction because hospitals are full. Employee shortages in New York City cause delays in trash and subway services and diminish the ranks of firefighters and emergency workers. Airport officials shut down security checkpoints at the biggest terminal in Phoenix and schools across the nation struggle to find teachers for their classrooms.
The current explosion of omicron-fueled coronavirus infections in the U.S. is causing a breakdown in basic functions and services — the latest illustration of how COVID-19 keeps upending life more than two years into the pandemic.

“COVID mandates are wrong. Schools have no right to force you to get your 5-year old vaccinated.” — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), on Twitter, overlooking that current vaccine mandates for schools include Chickenpox, Diphtheria, Hepatitis A & B, Flu, Measles, Mumps, Pertussis, Polio, Pneumococcal, Rotavirus, Rubella, and Tetanus.

Politics:

Texas GOP’s voting meme shows how Trump-style messaging wins internet’s attention

A Twitter meme posted on Friday by the Republican Party of Texas that compared waiting in line for COVID-19 tests to waiting in line to vote quickly provoked anger from the left, giddiness from the right, and rose to one of the top trending posts on the platform that day.
In other words, experts on propaganda and internet misinformation said, the meme did exactly what it was intended to do.
“The goal is to further divide people, but divide them by making them feel they’re part of a group,” said Sam Woolley, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin who also serves as the project director for propaganda research at the Center for Media Engagement.

Trump not immune from criminal referral

Kinzinger asks if Trump ‘incompetent or a coward’ during 6 January riot while Raskin ponders 14th amendment to bar new run.

Ex-Trump Press Secretary Gave ‘a Lot of Names’

Rep. Jamie Raskin, a member of the Jan. 6 select committee, said he believes the investigation will reveal the full truth about the insurrection.
"America is going to be shocked and surprised at what we all come to learn this year," he told CNN.
Raskin, who called the insurrection "a coup" organized by former President Donald Trump, said the committee has not made a decision about possibly subpoenaing former Vice President Mike Pence if he doesn't talk to the committee voluntarily.
Raskin also said that former Trump press secretary Stephanie Grisham “names a lot of names I had not heard before” and “identified some minds of inquiry that had never occurred to me” during a conversation he had with her prior to her interview yesterday with the committee.

Maybe a typo for lines of inquiry?

NATO says it will not appease Russia with ‘second class’ allies as meeting looms

Biden Comes Out Swinging Against Republicans

President Biden has begun his second year in office by lashing out at Republicans, embracing forceful new attacks meant to define a choice for voters between Mr. Biden’s Democrats and a Republican Party still under the thumb of former President Donald Trump.
The sharp tone comes as Mr. Biden seeks to jump-start his agenda, which has largely stalled in Congress. And with midterm elections looming at the end of the year, the president faces a challenge that he has largely avoided so far: drawing Mr. Trump and other Republican leaders into a more direct clash of ideas.

It’s Time to Amend the Constitution

Trump spent January 6 anniversary watching Biden and Pelosi on cable news and he was enraged

Serendipity:

Japanese man who rents himself out to 'do nothing' for a living says he will 'reply to chitchat, but that's it'

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